Neymar...

[changingman]

PSG also responded to City's higher press in the second half by resorting to long balls and thereby inviting more pressure.

I understand Mbappe's pace if one "drops" correctly but they showed in the first half how adept they were at playing out of tight spaces. Whilst Pep must take some credit for his decisions at half time I think you take points off Poch he seemed to think PSG could keep it tight for 45 minutes and eek a 1-0.

Expect a different beast second match - have a feeling Kean might start and just go after City with pace/power.

 

[Alzi]

This is how city got back into it last night for me. The pair of them in the second half just sacked off pressing the city back line, not sure if that was orders or if they just decided they couldn't be bothered - it was weird as it was causing city all kinds of problems for the first half.

Don't think Mbappe was fully fit.

 

[Simply red]

Gordon Strachan took no notice when he was reccomended Neymar for £1m , and chose Will Flood , Chris Killen etc instead.
Only 18 at the time so a lot of money, would he have made it ? YES

 

[brain_in_a_jar]

Gordon Strachan took no notice when he was reccomended Neymar for £1m , and chose Will Flood , Chris Killen etc instead.
Only 18 at the time so a lot of money, would he have made it ? YES

I'm not having this, everybody knew what a talent Naymar was at 18. There is no chance he was offered to us for a million quid.

 

[brain_in_a_jar]

Don't think Mbappe was fully fit.

Maybe not, he was stretching a lot during and before the game so he might be injured or just absolutely done in like a lot of players are now.

 

[Steer]

He has his own Fortnite skin. My son (not a big football fan yet) asked me who he is. I explained that he is a footballer who rolls around the floor in fake agony if someone brushes past him, and is therefore the least appropriate person in the entire world to have a skin in any game that involves even the merest hint of violence.

 

[Muttley]

He has his own Fortnite skin. My son (not a big football fan yet) asked me who he is. I explained that he is a footballer who rolls around the floor in fake agony if someone brushes past him, and is therefore the least appropriate person in the entire world to have a skin in any game that involves even the merest hint of violence.

It would fun if anyone using that skin rolled around on the ground at the sound of a nearby gun shot.

Every time I have watched Neymar play whether for Brazil, Barca or PSG I have been underwhelmed. On Wednesday Foden was the player who showed outrageous skillz as he danced through the PSG defence, just a shame he couldn't finish it.

 

[breakthewallsdown]

Gordon Strachan took no notice when he was reccomended Neymar for £1m , and chose Will Flood , Chris Killen etc instead.
Only 18 at the time so a lot of money, would he have made it ? YES

He was playing for Brazil at 18.. There is no way he was ever recommended to GS

 

[SilentProf]

I'm not having this, everybody knew what a talent Naymar was at 18. There is no chance he was offered to us for a million quid.

He was 18 when Chelsea had a big offer rejected for him.

Santos reject Chelsea's bid for teenage star Neymar

Santos have said they have turned down Chelsea's offer, rumoured to be around €20m, for the prodigious teenage striker Neymar

www.theguardian.com

 

[Erimus74]

Everything wrong in the modern game, IMHO

 

[brain_in_a_jar]

He was 18 when Chelsea had a big offer rejected for him.

Santos reject Chelsea's bid for teenage star Neymar

Santos have said they have turned down Chelsea's offer, rumoured to be around €20m, for the prodigious teenage striker Neymar

www.theguardian.com

I'll give GS pelters all day long, but we don't have to make stuff up to highlight what an absolute fraud of a manager he was while he was here.

Just reading that has cheered me up no end today though so fair play to SR. Just imagining naymar and kink fighting over that last minute free kick against burnley